STANFORD URBAN INFORMATICS LAB
We develop socio-technical and data-driven solutions to sustainability challenges facing the urban built environment
Latest Lab News
10 July 2026
UIL Director Interviewed for NPR Article on Extreme Heat in San Francisco
UIL Director Rishee Jain was interviewed for an NPR article ask "Is San Francisco Prepared for Extreme Heat?"
1 September 2025
*Best Paper Award* at Building Simulation 2025
UIL PhD student Dipashreya Sur won the 2nd Place Best Paper Award for her paper "Demonstrating the feasibility of prompt engineering to develop complex building energy models" at Building Simulation 2025 in Brisbane, Australia. Congrats Dipashreya!
12 August 2025
*New Paper* in Env. and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Our paper "Building energy consumption and urban form: A multi-temporal empirical investigation" was published in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. This work was in collaboration with Dr. Marco Mioitti (ETH-Zurich). Congrats to Eleanor who led this work from UIL!
City sketch by Andrew Sonta